Ferry crash in New York City

A high-speed ferry loaded with hundreds of commuters from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Jan. 9 during the morning rush hour, injuring around 50 people, at least two critically.
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Passengers aboard the Seastreak Wall Street said scores of people who had been standing, waiting to disembark, were hurled to the deck by the impact.
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More than 340 passengers and five crew members were aboard the ferry, which had arrived from Atlantic Highlands on the Jersey Shore.
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New York City firemen carried a victim of a commuter ferry crash from the scene in New York on Jan. 9.
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Firefighters were still carrying people away on flat-board stretchers an hour after the crash.
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An injured passenger from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry was interviewed by a New York City police officer.
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An injured passenger from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry was taken to an ambulance.
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Some patients were carried out strapped to flat-board stretchers, their heads and necks immobilized. About a dozen passengers on stretchers were spread out on the dock, surrounded by emergency workers and firefighters.
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Passenger Frank McLaughlin, 46, said some passengers were bloodied when they banged into walls and toppled to the floor.
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The accident, which ripped open part the boat’s hull like an aluminum can, happened at 8:45 a.m. at a pier near the South Street Seaport, at Manhattan’s southern tip.
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After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally. A witness said passengers raced off once the ramp was down.
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A passenger, Ellen Foran of Neptune City, N.J., said people tumbled on top of one another, hysterical and crying.
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This aerial photo provided by WABC News Channel 7 showed emergency personnel at the scene of a ferry crash in Lower Manhattann on Jan. 9.
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Ferries are a fairly common way to commute to work in Manhattan, an island separated from New Jersey and the rest of New York City by several rivers.
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Ferry accidents happen every few years in New York. In 2003, 11 people were killed when a Staten Island Ferry crashed into a pier on Staten Island after its pilot passed out at the wheel. Three people were badly hurt and about 40 injured when the same ferry hit the same pier in 2010, because of a mechanical problem.
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